Manuel Muñiz

Manuel Muñiz Villa is a Spanish lawyer, academic administrator, and international affairs scholar. From 2017 to 2020 he served as Dean of the IE School of Global and Public Affairs (IE University) in Madrid, Spain. He serves as Secretary of State for Global Spain in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation since 2020.

Manuel Muñiz
Secretary of State for Global Spain
Assumed office
7 February 2020
Preceded byIrene Lozano

Education

He studied at the Runnymede College in La Moraleja.[1] Muñiz earned a licentiate degree in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid[1] in 2004. Three years later, in 2007, he obtained the title of Juris Doctor and was accepted into the Madrid Bar.

Hin 2009, Muñiz was awarded a Master of Science in Financial Markets from the Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles in Madrid. In 2011, he received a Master in Public Administration at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Governmennt.[2] In 2012, he entered the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI) in Paris, France, as a research fellow.[3]

Muñiz earned a DPhil in International Relations at the University of Oxford,[4] for a dissertation on European security and defence in 2016.

Career
Muñiz at a conference at the Rafael del Pino Foundation.

Beginning in 2014, he has held a position at the Fundación Rafael del Pino in Madrid, Spain, where he has been the Director of the Program on Global Leadership.[5]

In addition, he also joined Tufts University as a lecturer on populism and diplomacy in 2015[6] and was appointed Director of the Program on Transatlantic Relations at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.[2] That year, he also acted as a consultant for the United Nations in Tunisia vis-à-vis the peace efforts in neighbouring Libya.[7]

In 2017, he was appointed a Senior Associate at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.[8]

In 2017, Muñiz also became the Dean of the School of International Relations at the Instituto de Empresa,[9] now the School of Global and Public Affairs.[10] He was also the founding director of the IE Centre for the Governance of Change.[11]

On January 12, 2020, the Council of Ministers of the Government of Spain announced his appointment as Secretary of State for Global Spain in replacement of Irene Lozano.[12][13][4] He assumed office on 7 February.[14]

References
  1. Vega, María (February 2, 2020). "Manuel Muñiz: de fundar el Partido Europeo Liberal y advertir del peligro de Iglesias a España Global". El Español.
  2. "Dr. Manuel Muñiz". Harvard University. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  3. "Transworld. Transatlantic Relations and the Future of Global Governance". Sciences Po CERI. October 19, 2016. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  4. "Manuel Muñiz Villa se convierte en el nuevo secretario de Estado de la España Global". Crónicas de la Emigración. January 28, 2020.
  5. "Manuel Muñiz Villa" (in Spanish). Fundación Rafael Del Pino. April 18, 2017. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  6. "Manuel Muñiz". Tufts Global Leadership. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  7. "Muñiz - Dr Manuel Muñiz". GCSP. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  8. "Manuel Muñiz". Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  9. Pablo Pardo (February 20, 2017). "'En el Gobierno de Donald Trump, no hay nadie que defienda a la UE'". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  10. Manuel Muñiz (September 10, 2018). "Changing for a better future; The School of Global and Public Affairs". IE School of Global Public Affairs. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  11. Diego Rubio (April 17, 2018). "No es la tecnología, sino su gobernanza, lo que salvará la democracia". El País Retina (in Spanish). Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  12. "El profesor Manuel Muñiz nuevo secretario de Estado de España Global". La Vanguardia. EFE. January 28, 2020.
  13. "Referencia del Consejo de Ministros". La Moncloa. January 28, 2020.
  14. "Laya anima al nuevo equipo a reforzar lazos y el lugar de España en el mundo". La Vanguardia. February 7, 2020.
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